What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[EnemyoftheStoat]

I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to correctly guess the composer if you aren't familiar with them.

That's certainly not the case with the Trio. It's unmistakably Arnold from the outset.

[gradus]

The last act Trio from Rosenkavalier at quite possibly the slowest ever tempo on a new record of bits and pieces by Renee Fleming and Susan Graham. Is still a lovely piece of music but too obviously an attempt to showcase the great lady.

[frankbridge]

The last act Trio from Rosenkavalier at quite possibly the slowest ever tempo on a new record of bits and pieces by Renee Fleming and Susan Graham. Is still a lovely piece of music but too obviously an attempt to showcase the great lady.

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

te Kanawa/Rydl/von Otter/Hendricks

Staatskapelle Dresden / Haitink

EMI CDS 754 259-2

Picked up in a charity shop in Folkestone for 2.99!! The very best of bargains, with Uncle Bernie at the helm, you can't go wrong. I was moved to tears by the third act...

[BBMmk2]

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

te Kanawa/Rydl/von Otter/Hendricks

Staatskapelle Dresden / Haitink

EMI CDS 754 259-2

Picked up in a charity shop in Folkestone for 2.99!! The very best of bargains, with Uncle Bernie at the helm, you can't go wrong. I was moved to tears by the third act...

That looks a great set!

Camilke Saint-Saëns Edition
CDs 24 & 25
Samson & Dalila
Rita Gorr (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor)
Ernest Blanc (baritone) Remi Corazza (bass)
Jacques Potier (bass)
Chœurs René Duclos
Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris
Georges Prêtre

[gurnemanz]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 K482
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gabor Takács-Nagy with Manchester Camerata on Chandos.
Beautiful from all concerned

Having not played this work for a while I treated myself to another recording - brilliant playing from the younger Brendel with Paul Angerer and Vienna Chamber Orchestra, especially in the plaintive Andante.

[Stanfordian]

British Works for Cello and Piano – Volume 3
Rubbra
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.60
Rawsthorne
Cello Sonata in C major
E.J. Moeran
Cello Sonata in A minor
Paul Watkins (cello) & Huw Watkins (piano)
Recorded 2013 Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
Chandos, CD

[smittims]

That's a splendid disc, and indeed two splendid artists. Paul Watkins is a fine conductor , when he's given the chance, and Huw of course a distiguished and prolific composer, one of the best alive today,. in my opinion.


I'm currently hearing something very different. A most individual Brahms Third, conducted by Stokowski in 1957. I'm sure some would be unable to listen to his antics, but I find it valid, and he was, of course, alive during Brahms' lifetime, the first conductor to record all four symphonies.

[Joseph K]

'Swing Bridge' by Alvin Lucier

https://moderecords.bandcamp.com/album/swing-bridge-sizzles-mode-312?fbclid=IwAR2S4Fmyky-urLaZ8Bbh1zAe1lrYirfa3Yes_Sa2rVQLq1D8ZB4vcm3tPBY

Some nice microtonally slowly shifting tones.

[pastoralguy]

I continue with my Schubert C Major Quintet obsession!

The Allegri Quartet with Thomas Igloi. CRD.

The first chamber music cd I ever bought was their recording of the Brahms 1st sextet and I’ve enjoyed their many recordings for CRD.

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: Septet op 20
Schubert: Octet D803

Wiener Oktett
Willi Boskovsky, Philipp Matheis (Schubert) (violins)]
Gunther Breitenbach (viola), Nikolaus Hubner (cello)
Johann Krump (double bass), Alfred Boskovsky (clarinet)
Josef Veleba (horn), Rudolf Hanzl (bassoon)

[Barbirollians]

None but the lonely heart. Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and other works.

Daniel Lozakovich, violin.

The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia conducted by Vladimir Spivakov.

Deutsche Grammophon.

One of the latest hot shot fiddle players displaying his talent. Very fine playing if, perhaps, not hitting the heights by Mr. Heifetz, Igor Oistrakh or Janine Jansen to name but three of my favourite exponents of this, my favourite violin concerto. What lets the concerto down, imvho, is the rather run of the mill conducting.

IGI chose this as his favourite recording of all in Gramophone last month's collection . Going for £5.99 new on Amazon - worth a punt I think.

[BBMmk2]

New listening project, today.

Rafael Kubelik Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Mercury Masters
CD 1
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exibition
CD 2
Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
Ernest Bloch
Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra, with Piano Obligato
CD 3 Dvorák
Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 “From the New World”
CD 4 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36
CD 5
Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 “Pathetique”
CD 6 Brahms
Symphony No.1 in minor, Op.68.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik.

[Stanfordian]

Verdi
‘Don Carlo’
(five act Italian version of 1867)
Carlo Maria Giulini (studio 1971, EMI: Five Acts, in Italian)
Plácido Domingo (Don Carlo), Montserrat Caballé (Elizabetta),
Shirley Verrett (Princess Eboli), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo),
Ruggero Raimondi (Philip II), Giovanni Foiani (Grand Inquisitor),
Simon Estes (Monk)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, London / Carlo Maria Giulini
Studio recording 1970, Walthamstow Town Hall, London
EMI (HMV), remastered Warner Classics 3 CD set

[smittims]

Bruckner 3 in the Georg Tintner Scottish National recording. Almost a different symphony from the version I know, but then , as Kate Molleson says 'worth a whirl sometime'. .

[BBMmk2]

Bruckner 3 in the Georg Tintner Scottish National recording. Almost a different symphony from the version I know, but then , as Kate Molleson says 'worth a whirl sometime'. .

How’d you find Tintner’s interpretations?

Now the last two CDs of this really good box set.

Rafael Kubelik - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - The Mercury Masters
CD 7 Smetana
Má vlast.
CD 8 Mozart
Symphonies
No.38 in D major K504 “Prague”
No.34 in C major K338
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik.